This first-rate conservatory band has already contributed two vivacious discs to Chandos's Grainger series and it shows itself to be equally adept in the far cooler idiom of Gustav Holst. ... for the most part, whether it be in the gnarled obsessions of the First Suite's Chaconne or the self-confident strut of the Second Suite's opening March or the clash of superimposed musics in the painfully impassive reading of the Hammersmith Prelude, they convey the range of the music's spirit well.